compile /runtime error with #include file in include dir

[HaWe]

hi, I get this strange behavior (using Bricxcc 3.3.8.8, no test_release installed):

I have a header file nxcio.h

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int LCDline[8]={56,48,40,32,24,16,8,0};

#define printf2( _x, _y, _format1, _format2, _value1, _value2) { \
  string sval1 = FormatNum(_format1, _value1); \
  string sval2 = FormatNum(_format2, _value2); \
  string s =sval1+sval2; \
  TextOut(_x, _y, s); \
}

in the directory
G:\Akten\Programmierung\NXC\include
(this path is set in preferences as include path)

and a test file

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#include "nxcio.h"
task main(){

  for (int i=0;i<8;i++) {
     printf2(0,LCDline[i],"%3d","%3d", i, (i+2)&14);
  }
  while (true);
}

in the directory
G:\Akten\Programmierung\NXC\Test

If I press F5 I get no error,

but if I press ctrl+F5 I get the error

# Error: Undefined Identifier LCDline
File "c:\Temp\temp.nxc" ; line 10
# TextOut(0, LCDline[
#----------------------------------------------------------
# Error: Unknown datatype
File "c:\Temp\temp.nxc" ; line 10
# TextOut(0, LCDline,
#----------------------------------------------------------
# Error: Unknown datatype
File "c:\Temp\temp.nxc" ; line 11
#

what's wrong?

[HaWe]

seemed to be a Bricxcc compiler bug...

so I meanwhile copied the testrelease 20101103 into the Bricxc folder.
Now I don't get the compile error,
the program starts,
but all values (at least only the last values) are written into line 0 (bottom line)
(that means, the single values of LCDline[] are ignored)


EDIT:
resolved!

my mistake was:

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int LCDline[8]={56,48,40,32,24,16,8,0};

instead of

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int LCDline[]={56,48,40,32,24,16,8,0}

[afanofosc]

There was a bug fix made in the compiler a while back that changed how global variables are initialized which might explain the behavior you are seeing. I should probably have the compiler either ignore the size when you provide an initializer array or have it both initialize to the specified size and then re-init with the provided initializer or something really smart like that. It sounds like right now it defines the array in the static dataspace but then initializes it with zeros to the specified length in the global initialization subroutine that gets inserted into task main by the compiler.

John Hansen